New York Daily News Fires Shaun King’s Editor Amid Allegations Of Plagiarism

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Black Lives Matter Activist Accused Of Lying About His Race Explains His Personal History

“For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest. I preferred to keep it that way and deeply resent that I have been forced to authenticate so many intimate details of my life to prove who I really am,” Shaun King wrote Thursday in the Daily Kos.



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New York Daily News Fires Shaun King’s Editor Amid Allegations Of Plagiarism

The New York Daily News on Tuesday fired an editor for a “series of egregious and inexplicable errors” made while handling the material of one of its most popular columnists, making it appear as if he had plagiarized.


Jim Rich, the paper’s editor in chief, issued a statement saying the editor responsible for King’s column’s had been fired for deleting “attribution that made it appear passages from Shaun King’s columns were not properly credited.”


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